Developer announcements, patch notes and gaming coverage from across the GaugeDB catalogue.
For any of you in the Toronto area interested in horror, sci-fi, monsters, and scary stuff, come check out the Toronto After Dark Film Festival. The festival starts today with amazing films! Then afterwards, around 11:30 pm or so, come to Pauper's Pub, we will be showing Mutant B
Read articleFor any of you in the Toronto area interested in horror, sci-fi, monsters, and scary stuff, come check out the Toronto After Dark Film Festival. The festival starts today with amazing films! Then afterwards, around 11:30 pm or so, come to Pauper's Pub, we will be showing Mutant B
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Stardock has released an update for the popular The Political Machine 2012 . The Political Machine 2012 allows players to hit the virtual campaign trail by creating your own custom candidate or choosing from a variety of candidates, such as Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clin
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Dwarfs!? is now Free to Play on Steam! Play the core game in Arcade mode, plus all the Tutorials and the Challenge modes completely free, forever. No charges, no subscriptions - just free. If you like those modes and want more, you can either pick the modes that you feel like pla
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The Landwehr Canal Pack , new DLC for Sniper Elite V2 , is now available on Steam! "The Landwehr Canal Pack" provides another brand new single-player mission and three new weapons. The Landwehr Canal mission tasks players with taking out three German generals as they convene in n
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Kick off the weekend by playing PAYDAY The Heist for FREE starting now through Sunday at 1PM Pacific Time. Additionally, pickup PAYDAY The Heist all this weekend at 75% off the regular price! Sale ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time. If you already have Steam installed you can click
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This weekend only, save 50% on Sleeping Dogs *! Welcome to Hong Kong, a vibrant neon city teaming with life, whose exotic locations and busy streets hide one of the most powerful and dangerous criminal organizations in the world: the Triads. In this open world game, you play the
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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition is now available on Mac! Buy it once. Play it on both Mac & PC! In celebration, save 25% on The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition and 50% on The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut ! *Offer ends October 20th
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Spaceship management roguelike FTL is one of this year's standout games, and also one of the first Kickstarted projects to result in a playable product. Its modding scene centers around new ships, tweaked mechanics, and updated graphics. We've picked out three ship replacement mo
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Indie sensation Dear Esther won lots of praise for its distinctive feel and moody narrative when it came out earlier this year. Even though it's short, The Chinese Room's experimental title is the kind of experience you take your time with so that the mournful vibe and lushly dra
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In a blog post on the Irrational Games website, legendary designer Ken Levine has opened the clanking, whirring lid on BioShock Infinite’s brassy pair of collector’s editions. The Premium Edition, which will cost $79.99 (around £50), includes a 3-inch keyring based on the ‘Murder
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Like I mentioned yesterday, I felt like I was in a rut for a little while with my Borderlands 2 arsenal. But suddenly, upon starting the first, pirate-themed DLC, I wound up with an embarrassment of great weaponry. When it rains, it pours (bullets). Among the guns I got was a uni
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Valve have sat down with Area 51's Semphis and a video camera to talk through some pro strategies for improving your odds in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Semphis offers detailed advice about how to fire the AK-47 at different ranges, and shows some of his favourite grenade a
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Doom 3 BFG edition is out this week, which makes it the perfect week for a Doom 3 BFG launch trailer. The repackaged, updated version of Doom 3 comes with 3D vision support and a new seven-level segment called The Lost Mission. The Resurrection of Evil expansion pack is included,
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This fall, we've been getting the best sort of déja vu . From Dishonored to XCOM , many of the best games of the fall have learned from past classics and reworked them into smart, satisfying, fresh-feeling games. Is this new appreciation for 90's classics a trend, or an anomaly?
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Hey, remember when PopCap announced it was working on a sequel to Plants vs. Zombies? Well, it looks like it may be called Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare. Fusible has discovered a bunch of new domain registrations attributed to PopCap including gardenwarfare.net, pvzgardenwar
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Alientrap, they behind the absolutely superb Capsized , have released a trailer for their new game – Apotheon . Sit up and take notice, because if you didn’t play Capsized, you missed out on one of the best PC platformers in ages. Apotheon is calling itself a 2D Action RPG. (more
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I've always felt strangely about Doom 3 . On the one hand, it was a fairly revolutionary game, graphically. The lighting was striking. On the other hand, it looked kind of gross: humans in the game were starkly lit with strange, bump-mapped faces and odd, robotic movements. But i
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Of all the user-made interpretations of Half-Life's doomed resonance cascade in the Black Mesa facility, the version fashioned by Minecraft modder "Xannot" might very well include the first Swiss-cheese-lined test chamber. Really, Xannot's Minecraft-ed Black Mesa appears quite fa
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